Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Ricketts 133. Text(s): Book of Hours. Description: ff. 150 - Contemporary blind-stamped binding of slightly bevelled wooden boards sewn on 4 thongs and covered with calf, panelled with multiple frames of triple lines, blind-stamped with tools of (a) Saint Anthony in a lozenge (type of Hulshof and Schretlen 1921, pls. II: 5), (b) a rosette in a circle, (c) a splayed eagle in a circle and (d) several very small flower heads, metal fittings (only) for two pairs of engraved silver-gilt clasps and catches, covers repaired, upper cover detached; in a fawn cloth case. - Written in 1491 (dated on fol. 148r) probably for Margaretha van Cleyburg (d. 1537), wife and later widow of Boudewijn Willemszoon van Drenckwaert (c. 1468-1496), bailiff and steward of Voorne; and by descent to her daughter, Catherina van Drenckwaert (wife of Jan Pauwelszoon van der Dycke), granddaughter, Margareta van der Dycke (wife of Jan van den Steen, burgomaster of Bergen-op-Zoom), and in 1578 great-granddaughter, Catharina ven den Steen (wife of Jan de Langue, secretary of Brielle), all recorded inside the upper cover; A. D. Schinkel (1784-1864), of The Hague, printer; his sale, The Hague, 21 November 1864, lot 3; William Bragge (1823–1884); probably no. 54 in Burlington Fine Arts Club 1874, p. 11, lent by Bragge; his sale, Sotheby’s, 7 June 1876, lot 221, to Ellis; Col. Eustace Balfour (1854-1911, younger brother of Lord Balfour, prime minister 1902-05); sale at Sotheby’s, 28 July 1919, lot 99a; C. L. Ricketts, bought from Voynich in 1921; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961. - Cockerell 1908, p. 119, no. 244; de Ricci 1935, p. 637; Lievens 1963, pp. 50–51; Marrow 1979, p. 226, no. 19; Broekhuijsen and Korteweg 1989, p. 66; Defoer et al. 1989, p. 290; Broekhuijsen 1991, passim; Kidd 2001, p. 44; Broekhuijsen 2009, pp. 10–13, 35, 38, 50, 51, 55, 59, 68, 71 and 75, and pp. 88–90, no. 3. Part 1: ff. 150. Description: - Parchment - 187 x 134 mm - (3 blank) + pastedowns, 187 mm. by 134 mm., collation: i.

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